Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Pachyderms and Zen Hotels

This is one sweet place! We are now at the Chedi Hotel in Chang Mai, after we spent last night at a dump in the middle of nowhere. It is beautiful here--well deserved after a few days of hard driving covering hundreds of miles. We will be here for three nights. 
One the way here we stopped at a place called the Thai Elephant Conservation Center. It is a very well maintained facility complete with elephant hospital that keeps a large number of animals under great conditions. They put a special show on for us today. 
Elephants have very prickly hairs on their skin.
Since it is so hot outside here the elephants get to go in the water 3 times a day. They love it in there. 
Ok...I promise this is the last temple picture. We have seen so many buddhist and hindu temples, I think we had enough for a lifetime. This was actually a very beautiful ancient temple site called Phimai. It was a huge maze of statues and temple buildings on a big lawn. Very pretty. 

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